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Amazon Web Services

AWS Lambda & Serverless Architecture

Build event-driven, serverless applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge and the full serverless ecosystem.

🎓 Intermediate 🕑 14 hrs 🎉 Certificate of Completion 📋 Exam: No exam (DevOps/SAA prep component)

Course Overview

Serverless is one of the fastest-growing architectural patterns on AWS. This course covers AWS Lambda in depth — function lifecycle, concurrency, layers, and extensions — combined with the broader serverless ecosystem including API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3 triggers, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions, and SAM (Serverless Application Model). You will build complete serverless applications from scratch with hands-on labs throughout.

What You Will Learn

  • Build production-grade serverless applications
  • Connect Lambda to a wide range of AWS event sources
  • Design event-driven architectures with Step Functions
  • Secure and monitor serverless workloads
  • Deploy serverless apps using SAM and CI/CD pipelines

Course Modules

  • Lambda function model: execution, lifecycle, cold starts
  • Lambda layers, extensions and SnapStart
  • API Gateway: REST, HTTP and WebSocket APIs
  • DynamoDB for serverless applications
  • Event sources: S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kinesis
  • Step Functions for orchestration
  • SAM framework and serverless CI/CD
  • Observability: X-Ray, CloudWatch Logs Insights
  • Security: function policies, VPC Lambdas, secrets
  • Cost optimisation and performance tuning

Who Is This Course For?

This course is designed for IT professionals, cloud engineers, developers, and business professionals seeking to build expertise in Amazon Web Services services. Whether you are starting your cloud journey or advancing toward a professional-level certification, our structured learning path and hands-on labs will prepare you thoroughly.

Prerequisites

Basic IT literacy and familiarity with computing concepts is recommended. Specific technical prerequisites vary by level — Foundational courses have no prior experience requirement. Associate and Professional courses benefit from prior cloud exposure.

Delivery & Access

  • Blended, online, onsite or on-demand delivery — your choice of format
  • Hands-on labs with real environments
  • Instructor Q&A support for 30 days
  • Verified certificate of completion by BITA
  • Study guides, practice questions and reference materials included